Over 30 days I interacted with the people of Iran like I’ve never interacted with the people of a foreign country before. Nowhere have I encountered a people so universally kind, friendly and generous.

Why do some tourists go on holiday to foreign locations and then turn into total ars*holes when things are different than they are at home? Scott Bridges feels ashamed on behalf of The Rest Of The World.

In Australia we’re conditioned our whole lives to “put it in the bin”. So what do you do when travelling in a country where people throw rubbish out of buses or just drop it where they’re standing? asks Scott Bridges from India.

Christmas wasn’t quite the presents and turkey standard for Scott Bridges, thanks to the joys of travel gastro. Instead, he reflects on the season with some light Indian Christmas television. Isn’t travel glamorous?

As Scott Bridges prepares to head overseas on a year long adventure (to be chronicled at Crikey’s new ‘Back in a Bit’ blog), he wonders if his preconceptions of India — the seething mass of humans, the insane noise — will live up to the reality. Can you share your experience?

As long as there are no strict guidelines about what the blogger and parent organisation deem to be acceptable reader commentary, we will continue to see more of the same at Andrew Bolt’s blog. Meaning, homophobic comments.

While it’s admirable that the nine Australians who died in the PNG plane crash recently wanted to walk the Kokoda Track as a tribute to their countrymen, we shouldn’t get carried away, says Scott Bridges. But carried away the media got, playing the story for all it was worth.